A State Department team is back in Washington after more than two weeks in Baghdad investigating diplomatic security practices, including the use of private security firms such as Blackwater USA, a ...

A final decision about whether the private security company will keep the job is pending, the department said. Moyock, N.C.-based Blackwater is one of the largest private military contractors, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market ...

Erik Prince, military entrepreneur and founder of Blackwater USA, is returning to the spotlight – this time in Latin America, where he’s pitching his companies as a solution to insecurity and ...

Earlier this year, Blackwater USA opened a training facility for law enforcement on 80 acres of land north of Mount Carroll in Jo Daviess County, Ill.